• boydster@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Yes. He is now directly and mockingly violating the constitution and an explicit Supreme Court order. It is now a completely naked constitutional crisis for all the public to see.

    Reasonable people have seen it happening since long before today, but today marks a shift from a more covert assault to an open one, and that is noteworthy.

    Eta: I don’t mean they were really covert before, either, to be clear. They dropped any remaining veil of plausible deniability today though. And then also let it slip on recording that the intent is to deprive US citizens of due process and ship “terrorists” (read: undesirables) to El Salvador, too. Today is a historic day, sadly.

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      2 days ago

      You are correct. He was defying injunctions before. That’s only a contempt of court charge. There are rulings that he is defying.

      He’s actually created two constitutional crises today. They refused to admit the AP into the Oval Office for the press conference with Bukele.